It's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East.

I spend hours each day sifting through videos of people doing insane stunts with cars. This video…
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Finally, the car selection is really perfect: instead of supercars sittin' sideways, cruising at five miles an hour, we get ‘90s BMWs, Mercs and one dirty Alfa Romeo 156, all spinning like tops through the desert. There's even a see-through Peugeot 404 wagon. It's like the director had been reading Jalopnik's music video wish list or something.